Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.